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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XII).
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Quotation dates: 1440, 1511-1695
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Wyndmyln, -myl(l, n. Also: vynd-, wind-, vind-, wound- and -myln(e, -miln(e, -millne, -mil(l, -myll. [ME and e.m.E. windmulle (1297), wyndmelle (Chaucer), wyndmylne (a1400), winde-mille (c1450), windmill (1577), LG, Du. windmolen.] A windmill. Also attrib., possess. and in place-names.1440 Aberd. B. Rec. I 395.
In quodam ludo de ly Haliblude ludendo apud ly Wyndmylhill 1517 Wigtown B. Ct. 75b.
Half ane akyr liand at the vynd myll hill 1561 Reg. Dunferm. 425.
Wyndmilhill(a) 1511–12 Reg. Great S. 806/2.
Molendina aquatica, et ventorum, viz. le wynd-myllis, archas, aqueductus, viz. le dammys, et aquarum passagia(b) 1538–9 Reg. Privy S. II 439/2.
Except the said James part of ane wynd-myln liand within Dunde 1611 Scrymgeour Invent. 10.
Wyndmylne 1630 Aberd. Council Lett. I 338.
Bill given in … for bigging of ane wynd mylne 1657 Arbroath Old Doc. 7/2.
For helping to build the wynd millne of the said burgh(c) 1540 Lynd. Sat. 4358.
Her ers gaid evin lyk ane wind mill 1560 Crail MS Doc. 189.
Wind myll 1600–2 Montrose Treas. Acc. MS.
Vind mill(d) 1557 Reg. Dunferm. 400.
The said abbot one na wayis sall grant … to onie inhabitantis … of Kirkaldy … to bigg ony millis on the watter or wind milnis or hors mylnis witht in the boundis of the said toun and lordschip 1577 Reg. Privy S. VII 167/1.
Windmyln 1590 Crail B. Ct. MS 3 Nov.
That na wair be … putt in middingis within this burgh or owtwith the samyn narrer the sey nor the eist grene or wind mylne 1657 Aberd. B. Rec. IV 166.
Ane great trie which … wes borrowit … to be ane extrie for the wind milne 1689–90 Reid Forfar 183.
Repairing of the wind milne and school of the burgh 1695 Acts IX 491/1.
To build and erect in … Leith an windmiln with all things pertaining thereunto for sawing of all manner of timber and to do every thing requisit theranent(e) 1608 Bentinck Dornoch 184.
[Authority to build] lie watter seu wound-mylnes [at any part of the town of Dornoch or its burn]attrib. 1600–2 Montrose Treas. Acc.
Allowit be the bailleis for bying of the vynd myll veeles 1602 Montrose Treas. Acc. 11a.
For xxv ells of clayth to the vind miln saillis 1658 S. Leith Rec. 110/2.
To visit the windmill yaird and to cause cast downe the knowes tharof and to fill up the ditchespossess. 1601–2 Montrose Treas. Acc. 6b.
For sax stane of Danskyne gad yrne to the vind millis yrnis 1658 S. Leith Rec. 110/1.
Concerning the wind mills yard and kirk yard dicks that they may be repared
